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Monday, January 14, 2013

Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst does NOT represent School Choice

Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst does NOT represent School Choice:


StudentsFirst does NOT represent School Choice


Does this woman want even more control of educational decisions and state coffers? 

"Entrepreneurial investment in education technology has skyrocketed from $100 million in 2007 to $429 million in 2011. It’s peculiar that the huge increase in companies investing in digital classrooms and testing materials to eventually align with the Common Core State Standards’ requirements began the same year Rhee became Chancellor of DC Schools and Obama began his reign as president". 

Potter Williams Report: War on Education 2013 exposes the federal takeover of education and Michelle 

Will Teachers Refuse to Administer Common Core Assesssments? Garfield Teachers Might Pave the Way for More Teachers to Say "NO".


Will teachers say "NO" to the Common Core assessments caused by "crises" fabricated by private interests?


Will Missouri teachers (and teachers from other states) stand up to the increased Common Core standardized assessments and begin to refuse the avalanche of testing required?  They can take a page from the playbook of teachers in Seattle who are saying "no" to testing.   From The Underground Parent:

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